Word: recent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career in research, probably in mathematics, physics or chemistry, has his choice of General Motors or National Merit Scholarship to pay his way next fall at Harvard. He does not date ("I'm not quite ready for that yet"), amuses himself with chess, classical records and books (most recent ones: Lord Jim, Of Human Bondage). His passion for mathematics, his favorite scholarly field, came to him early from his father, an engineer who works for the Bureau of Reclamation...
...this week, with neither side giving an inch, the Globe-Democrat strike had become one of the longest and bitterest in recent U.S. journalism...
...reaction is recent, caused in part by the miles of glass facades that have resulted from Mies's approach in the hands of less talented practitioners. Says Architect Philip Johnson, a onetime Mies collaborator: "Mies is such a genius. But I grow old and bored." Eero Saarinen quietly insists: "There does not have to be as much glass as Mies says." Says Edward D. Stone: "I am beginning to long for a feeling of permanence and monumentality." To all of this, Mies rumbles: "They say they are bored with my objectivity. Well, I am bored with their subjectivity...
These amounts, Dr. Wynder conceded, are not enough to explain the recent startling increase in lung cancer. So, he argued, either there are other cancer-causing substances still undetected, or there is something that may seem innocent by itself but increases the effect of these cancer-stimulating factors. Laboratory research is now aimed at reducing the tar's content of polycyclic hydrocarbons, either by achieving more complete combustion or by adding a catalyst to the tobacco...
Kitchen Talk. The Farm Journal does its energetic best to cultivate its sources. Nine regional editors spend most of their time prowling about farms, Government stations and university "Ag" departments. On a recent trip, Dean Wolf, one of the magazine's three Midwestern editors, stumbled across three major items for his futures list in one day: a tractor rig that on one trip plowed, spread fertilizer, pulled a harrow and spread insecticide; an experiment that took piglets from their mothers by surgery and raised them in disease-free surroundings; and an operating "pig factory" which successfully used new techniques...